Nearly four months before he signed off on the poorly edited order granting a temporary injunction against Wisconsin’s new voter identification law, Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan scribbled his name on another important legal document:

A petition urging the recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
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“The very fact that Dane County Judge David Flanagan signed a petition to recall Governor Walker calls (Tuesday’s) court proceedings regarding Wisconsin’s voter ID law into question,” said Republican Party spokesman Ben Sparks in a statement.

Sparks said his party will file a complaint against Flanagan with the state Judicial Commission.

But Michael Maistelman, a Democratic election lawyer, said he doesn’t think it should be a problem that Flanagan signed the recall petition. He noted that Walker and members of the Government Accountability Board are being sued in their official roles, not as political candidates.

So, hypothetically, the above Democrat would have no problem whatsoever if the Supreme Court were to strike down Obamacare even after it was discovered that one of the SCOTUS conservatives had recently signed a petition urging the House to begin impeachment proceedings against the president? That’s hard to believe.

Patterico has more about Judge Flanagan’s ruling, parts of which sound as if they could have been written by Joe Biden on his most gaffe-tastic day:

But, but, it’s not like the judge is just a partisan hack, right? I mean, his ruling is still quality legal scholarship, isn’t it? Replete with careful citations to the applicable laws and sound arguments?